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Is this the real life? Is this just a fantasy? Caught in a landslide No escape from reality. Rathbun, with his bad back, was eliminated fairly quickly. Rinder, De Vocht, Marc Headley—one by one, they found themselves standing alone, behind low cubicle walls, watching the surviving contestants desperately ghting to remain in the Hole rather than be sent o to God knows where. There was a clock over the door marking the hours that passed as the music played on and on then suddenly stopped and the riot began again. As people fell out of the game, COB had airline tickets for distant locations printed up for them at the base’s travel oce. There were U-Haul trucks waiting outside to haul away their belongings. “Is it real to you now?” Miscavige teased. They were told that buses would be ready to leave at six in the morning. Many were in tears. “I don’t see anybody weeping for me,” Miscavige said. The utter powerlessness of everyone else in the room was made nakedly clear to them. The game continued until 4 a.m., when a woman named Lisa Schroer grabbed the final chair. The next morning the whole event was forgotten. No one went anywhere. In several legal declarations he has made over the years, Miscavige has protested, “I am the ecclesiastical leader of the religion, not the Church.” The distinction is important when the church is dragged into lawsuits or threatened with criminal liability; Miscavige can point to a chart that assigns organizational responsibility to other departments, whereas the sole responsibility of the Religious Technology Center, which he heads, is to protect Scientology doctrine and literature. And yet, Miscavige freely consigned those other department heads to the Hole or sent them to RPF. During the period that the organizational chart was being constantly rearranged, the only reliable posting on the base was his, that of COB RTC; everyone else was constantly being uprooted and repotted in other temporary assignments. There is really only one person in charge of the Church of Scientology. A few days after the musical chairs episode, Miscavige ordered everyone in the Hole to report to Golden Era Productions to stu CDs into cases. At one point, he began sharply interrogating De Vocht, who was shaken and stuttered in response. According to De Vocht, Miscavige punched him in the face. He felt his head vibrate. He tried to turn away from the next blow, but Miscavige grabbed his neck and shoved him into the oor, pummeling and kicking him. 7 De Vocht had served Miscavige for years, and had even considered him a friend. He had dedicated his life to Scientology and had been in the Sea Org for nearly thirty years. He recalls thinking, “Now here I am, being beat up by the top dog in front of my peers.” After the attack, Miscavige continued his speech. De Vocht was so humiliated that he couldn’t bring himself to look at his companions. Finally, he managed a glance at them. Pie faces. Rathbun was there, and at that moment he made a decision. As the other executives
were being led back to the Hole, he slipped away and got his motorcycle and hid in the bushes. When a car nally approached, he raced through the open gate into the outside world. 1 The church denies that Cruise was videotaped, or that Miscavige watched such tapes, or used such information to manipulate anyone. Noriyuki Matsumaru, who worked in the RTC with Miscavige, confirms De Vocht’s account. 2 Cruise, through his lawyer, denies this exchange and says he has no political ambition. 3 Spielberg’s publicist says that the director doesn’t recall the conversation. 4 Tom Cruise’s lawyer says that the actor doesn’t remember the incident or his being upset with Haggis. 5 As previously noted, the church denies all allegations of abuse by Miscavige. 6 The church denies that anyone in the Sea Org has ever been pressured to have an abortion. 7 The church denies that Miscavige has ever abused members of the church.
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Contents Cover Other Books by This
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Austin, Texas
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done, the task is to “nd the ruin
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the world, led dangerous expedition
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soundings and described with so muc
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Haggis accepted the money. His memo
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constructive.” Among other qualit
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andom and dicult to replicate, for
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2 Source The many discrepancies bet
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Washington, and no doubt he drew up
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Hubbard lled Free in on new develop
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last draft, get it out the door.”
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window of the skyscraper. Hubbard d
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included tracking down a German age
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admitted in his disputed memoir tha
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campaign before the expected invasi
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coach house behind it into nineteen
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said that over a period of three da
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earning power, due to injuries, all
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described him as “a manic depress
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You can sing beautifully. Nothing c
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same time it appears that he is cha
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equest of the bride. Perhaps she ha
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history,” he wrote to a puzzled c
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justied sense of dread. That may ha
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pregnancy, but also every word spok
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ever happened to him or anything he
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Foundation had its headquarters. Me
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the event of his death, Alexis will
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and international renown, followed
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3 Going Overboard Given his biograp
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Scientology. From now on, he would
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was a true believer, a natural enfo
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Hubbard using the E-Meter on a toma
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exercise. As he observed her, “I
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and on the suggestion of my doctor
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had lifted and he seemed completely
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ACCORDING TO SEVERAL Sea Org member
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pulled up on the beach near where h
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privately called his “full pantom
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annihilation. No matter how sophist
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charges, “You have to establish a
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Hubbard increasingly turned his wra
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that the WFMH never even bothered t
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that the CIA was determined to oust
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Switzerland containing more than $3
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countries that had turned against t
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his technology. Because the RPF pro
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In the interest of public relations
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us,” they told each other. By now
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parked on Sunset Road facing the en
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4 The Faith Factory Despite its rep
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auditing session cured her habit.
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carrying out in prisons and revolut
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Have you ever had unkind thoughts a
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the saved and the damned. Such pers
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outside my body,” Travolta later
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Desperate to get Gillham the auditi
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Heber Jentzsch, escorted Taylor to
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were drawn from her preclear folder
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said that they should get together.
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ellowing orders through a bullhorn,
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stunt growth, however, and if Misca
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adopted the role of an undercover o
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a n d correspondence relating to Op
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Gold Base, the Scientology compound
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she was twenty-ve, but her father d
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and carrying banners reading WE SHA
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Cooley demanded an immediate cremat
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David Miscavige speaking at the ina
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chaplain that John had threatened h
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now claimed went all the way up to
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6 In Service to the Stars In 1986,
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helpful, and he continued to advanc
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Page 169 and 170: Deborah made sure Paul showed up at
Page 171 and 172: T he Feshbach brothers were the “
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Page 175 and 176: He stopped moving up the Bridge. He
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Page 179 and 180: the mainstream religions that judge
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Page 197 and 198: Priscilla Presley, John Travolta, a
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Page 207: their family again. Those who accep
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Page 217 and 218: night. Part of his work was shoveli
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Page 221 and 222: where they were on the Bridge. Wilh
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Page 225 and 226: In May, Cruise appeared on The Opra
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Page 231 and 232: Tom Cruise and David Miscavige at t
Page 233 and 234: That spring, Shelly returned from a
Page 236 and 237: 10 The Investigation Proposition 8,
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Page 246 and 247: done no good. “I was paying money
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Page 250 and 251: After calling 911, Rathbun jumped i
Page 252 and 253: written, listing the acts for which
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les in the backseat of the car that
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John Sweeney, an aggressive reporte
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according to categories, such as
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to destroy it? However, eleven form
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elationship with her,” Davis cont
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founder’s version of events. The
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understand the only reason it’s c
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In much of the world, this religion
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woven into the fabric of his person
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esponsibility for the indignities i
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anch in his nal days, with Pat and
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Acknowledgments and a Note on Sourc
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accounts. These have taken the form
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held a class for them, in which the
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Happiness. Hubbard, The Way to Happ
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10 “I was just a kid”: Hubbard,
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magazines, 1996, pp. 11-12. 44 “I
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81 “This on top of”: “The Adm
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www.lermanet.com/scientology-and-oc
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adding to its credibility. 158 “t
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Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard (r
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249 a monkey in a cage: Ibid. Sara
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24 “It should be taken daily”:
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67 All of Hubbard’s senses: Inter
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who sought to profit from his off-b
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interview.txt. 143 “MAKE MONEY”
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185 In Curaçao, he suffered: Perso
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4. THE FAITH FACTORY 1 “magnetica
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www.lermanet.com/prince/. 43 Gratef
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vs. David Miscavige and Church of S
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58 “bull-baiting”: John Painter
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1 “He is one of the few”: “Ce
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42 “like one would find in a conv
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and Power,” Time, May 6, 1991. 7
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48 “a gopher being pulled”: Rei
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83 friends or clients of Fields: Be
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39 “He’d say that Tom Cruise”
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Headley, Blown for Good, pp. 225-31
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41 “in ignorance and darkness”:
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71 Lana Mitchell, the cook: Lana Mi
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112 Kirstie Alley and Kelly Preston
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7 “It has never been any part”:
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11 Archer had taken him: William Sh
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EPILOGUE 1 “the old religion”:
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Lectures. Lectures 1-7. Los Angeles
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Headley, Marc. Blown for Good: Behi
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Index Page numbers in italics refer
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Berle, Milton Bern Bertolucci, Bern
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Cessna Aircraft Corporation Champol
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Davis, Adelle Davis, Nadine Davis,
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Family Theater fanzines Farrington,
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Haggis, Jo Haggis, Kathy, 1.1, 1.2
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homosexuality and hypnotism feared
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Introspection Rundown, 3.1, 3.2, 7.
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Lohan, Lindsay Lombardo, Guy Lopez,
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No Child Left Behind Norris, Chuck
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Quinn, Anthony R6 implants, 3.1, 4.
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code of ethics in confidential scri
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Stafford, Michelle Stahl, Jennifer
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Welch, Bruce Welcome Back, Kotter W
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A Note About the Author Lawrence Wr
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ALSO BY LAWRENCE WRIGHT The Looming
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